The Campaign Against Terror - A New Survey.Editor's Note Editor's Note (foaled in 1993 in Kentucky) is an American thoroughbred Stallion racehorse. He was sired by 1992 U.S. Champion 2 YO Colt Forty Niner, who in turn was a son of Champion sire Mr. Prospector and out of the mare, Beware Of The Cat. Trained by D. : This survey will focus on the war against terrorism launched by US President George George, river, c.345 mi (560 km) long, rising in a lake on the Quebec-Labrador boundary, E Canada. It flows N through Indian Lake (125 sq mi/324 sq km) to Ungava Bay (an arm of Hudson Strait). Bush, as it impacts on the countries of the Middle East. The impact will be felt in different ways, with those who are (a) fully on the American American, river, 30 mi (48 km) long, rising in N central Calif. in the Sierra Nevada and flowing SW into the Sacramento River at Sacramento. The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill (see Sutter, John Augustus) along the river in 1848 led to the California gold rush of side of this war to be treated as the preferred allies, (b) reluctantly on the American side to be treated as allies of convenience, and (c) against the US to be treated as "states of concern" or "rogue states Noun 1. rogue state - a state that does not respect other states in its international actions renegade state, rogue nation body politic, country, nation, res publica, commonwealth, state, land - a politically organized body of people under a single ". This categorisation of Middle East countries will not be static, and some countries can be expected to shift from one group to the other - either moving further away from the world coalition against terror or closer towards it. The implications, in terms of rewards or punishments, will range from greater economic and military aid to the best allies, against various types of diplomatic pressure, sanctions Sanctions is the plural of sanction. Depending on context, a sanction can be either a punishment or a permission. The word is a contronym. Sanctions involving countries: The system of rewards and punishments in the global campaign against terror will be modelled roughly along the lines of how pro-Western and anti-Western countries in the Middle East were treated during the cold war. But there will be extensive modifications of this approach in recognition of the reality that there is only one real superpower in the world today, and the fact that the war against terror - unlike the bipolar (1) See bipolar transmission. (2) One of two major categories of transistor; the other is "field effect transistor" (FET). Although the first transistors and first silicon chips were bipolar, most chips today are field effect transistors wired as CMOS logic, which confrontation - cannot be cast in ideological or religious terms. The war against terror cannot be classified as being either "cold" or "hot". It will be both, and can be conducted simultaneously in different parts of the world. It will also not end in a way that would be as dramatic as the collapse of Communism communism, fundamentally, a system of social organization in which property (especially real property and the means of production) is held in common. Thus, the ejido system of the indigenous people of Mexico and the property-and-work system of the Inca were both . Unlike the cold war, the war against terror will focus mainly on tactical aims - the defeat and destruction of the Al Qaida network, for example - and would concentrate on eliminating the prospects of any country giving sanctuary sanctuary, sacred place, especially the most sacred part of a sacred place. In ancient times and in the Middle Ages, a sanctuary served as asylum, a place of refuge for persons fleeing from violence or from the penalties of the law. to those deemed terrorists by the US. The overall strategic goal would be to bring about a world where terrorism is no longer an attractive option for those seeking political objectives. The wider implications of the war against terror is that alliances and friendships that were nurtured during the years of bipolar confrontation between the US and the USSR USSR: see Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. may no longer be suitable or sufficient for the 21st century war - where technology plays as big a role (if not bigger) as the human factor. As the war against terror progresses, therefore, one can expect that the geo-political alignments that functioned as part of the cold war may no longer be applicable. Indeed, the factors that made countries in the Middle East particularly suitable as allies during the bipolar confrontation may even prove to be counter-productive, or even seen as threats, in the war against terrorism. This survey will begin with an overview and will be conducted on a country-by-country basis, in alphabetical order. It will last well into 2003, by which time it is expected that a much higher degree of clarity would exist on the methods and tactics of the parties on both sides of the war against terror. However, most indications are that the war itself will last much longer than that, judging by all the comments coming out of Washington. |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion